get_post_custom_values

• braddalton

• July 21, 2018 at 5:19 am

Is it possible to use this function with repeater fields to get all the values for a key.

• John Huebner

• July 23, 2018 at 1:22 am

No. Repeater fields are not stored in a way that will let you use this function.

Without more information I can’t really give you a solution. What are you trying to do?

• braddalton

• July 23, 2018 at 1:44 am

Hello John

Lets move away from sub & repeater fields.

How about using basic text or url fields with the same key.

With WP fields, i could use 1 custom field to add 5 different values

get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'logos', true );

And then this to get all the values

$key = get_post_custom_values( 'logos' );

How do i do this with ACF text or URL fields?

• John Huebner

• July 23, 2018 at 1:58 am

You cannot. ACF stores each field with a different meta key, you cannot have multiple fields with the same name. ACF does not use the ability to store multiple values with the same meta key. If you do this as each field is saved the new value will replace the old value.

• braddalton

• July 23, 2018 at 2:13 am

Yes, i worked that out so i had to use a different key for each. Thanks.

Here’s the code i used :

$logo_1 = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'logo_1', true );
$logo_2 = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'logo_2', true );
$logo_3 = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'logo_3', true );
$logo_4 = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'logo_4', true );
$logo_5 = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'logo_5', true );

$key = [ $logo_1, $logo_2, $logo_3, $logo_4, $logo_5 ];